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Three Cs, viz., counselling, cajoling and coersion are necessary to effectively enforce the provisions of ITP Act and JJ Act. By Order dated May 2, 1990, this Court, after hearing the counsel, passed an order to set up an Advisory Committee to make suggestions for eradicating child prostitution and to point out social aspects for the care, protection, treatment, development and rehabilitation of the young victims, children and girls prostitutes from red light area and get them free from the abuses of prostitution; to amend the existing law or enact a new law, if so warranted; to prevent sexual exploitation of children and to take various measures for effective enforcement thereof. It is seen that the Committee constituted by this Court under the chairmanship of Shri V.C. Mahajan travelled far and wide to have a look into the field of operation of the governmental agencies and has suggested nodal programme for the eradication of the twin facets of prostitution, viz., protection, care and rehabilitation of the fallen women and neglected juveniles. The Committee has opined that the problem of child prostitution does not stand by itself and is a component of overall phenomenon in the country. It highly concentrates on identified red light areas as well as on areas which are not so clearly identified. Though the problem of prostitution is mainly found in large cities, but in the urban areas and some rural areas, the problem gives frequent recurrence. Among the fallen women, the child prostitutes constitute major bulk of the component. Child prostitutes constitute 12 to 15% of prostitutes in any area. On account of the social sanctions, women are exploited by the monstrous customs of Devdasis, Jogins and Venkatans is known by other names in different parts of the country. The unfounded social and religion based sanctions are only camouflage; their real motive is to exploit the unfortunate women. Most of them belong either to Scheduled Castes or Backward Classes coming from socio-economically lower groups. They are prevalent highly in Karnataka, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh. The specific areas in major cities are identified as red light areas as well as some semi-urban but rural areas. The number of red light areas having increased in recent times, brothel based prostitution is on the vane but there is an increasing trend towards decentralised mode of prostitution. 86% of the fallen women hail from Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Bihar, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat, Goa, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Meghalaya, Orissa, Punjab, Rajasthan and Delhi, Delhi receives prostitutes from about 70 districts in the country; Bombay from 40 districts; Bangalore from 70 districts; Calcutta from 11 districts, Hyderabad from 3 districts etc. There is growing evidence that the minimum number of prostitutes get into flesh trade either voluntarily or by organised gangster force women and girls by offering rosy future to innocent fallen women and trap them often with the connivance of the police.